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Derren Brown's Boot Camp for the Brain

By: Derren Brown, Brian King
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Derren Brown gets into your brain...and reveals how to make it work better.

Do you ever make mistakes? Do you ever lose your temper and then immediately regret it? Are you impulsive? Do you make great plans which you fail to act on? Do you ever behave irrationally?

Don’t worry, it’s not your fault. Your brain is to blame. Extraordinary though it is, your brain is riddled with biases, blind spots and other cognitive weaknesses which can lead you seriously astray. But Derren Brown’s Boot Camp will help you tame your errant brain and fundamentally change the way you think.

In eight episodes, packed with gripping real life stories and cutting edge science, the series takes you into the deeper recesses of the mind, to reveal what’s going on, identify the bits which tend to go wrong and show you how to repair them. Along the way it discloses the secrets of some of Derren’s spectacular tricks of the mind.

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©2021 Derren Brown and Brian King (P)2021 Audible, Ltd Alternative & Complementary Medicine Psychology Psychology & Mental Health

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<i>Derren Brown's Boot Camp for the Brain</i>
An introduction from Derren Brown
The Decoy Effect and popcorn
Dating apps, the colour red and our subconscious
  • Derren Brown's Boot Camp for the Brain
  • An introduction from Derren Brown
  • The Decoy Effect and popcorn
  • Dating apps, the colour red and our subconscious
Episodes
  • Ep 1: The Troublesome Brain

    Ep 1: The Troublesome Brain
    Feb 23 2021

    The cognitive story behind a simple act of aggression. How our brain is essentially stuck in the Stone Age, struggling to deal with the complexity and pressures of modern life. And how an ongoing battle between our twin cognitive systems - our fast and slow thinking brains - lies behind much that goes wrong in our lives.

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    29 mins
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  • Ep 2: The Illusion of Free Choice

    Ep 2: The Illusion of Free Choice
    Feb 23 2021

    We enter the Magic Lab, where science and magic meets. We explore how the brain is prey to a whole range of cognitive defaults and errors which impair our ability to make choices which are in our best interests. Derren reveals the mistakes our brains make, but also identifies ways to avoid them – including the cunning Decoy Effect, which causes excessive popcorn consumption.
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    32 mins
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  • Ep 3: What You See Is All There Is

    Ep 3: What You See Is All There Is
    Feb 23 2021

    Our brain is a machine for jumping to conclusions. Derren reveals how the Halo Effect, Anchoring and Confirmation Bias distort our ability to judge one another – when interviewing someone for a job for example. And nothing makes it more difficult for us to read each other than our powerful instinct to lie, and our equally instinctive tendency to believe.

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    32 mins
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Derren Brown

About the creator

Born in Croydon in 1971, Derren’s big break came in 1999 when he was asked by Channel 4 to put a TV show together – Derren Brown: Mind Control. Since then, his name has become synonymous with the art of psychological manipulation. Amongst a varied TV career, Derren has played Russian Roulette live, convinced middle-managers to commit armed robbery, led the nation in a séance, stuck viewers at home to their sofas and successfully predicted the National Lottery. He has won various awards, including a BAFTA, an RTS Award and two Olivier Awards. In 2017, Derren made his stage debut in New York with his show Secret, winning the 2018 NY Drama Desk award for Unique Theatrical Entertainment. As an author, he has received much praise for his best-selling books, Tricks of the Mind, Confessions of a Conjuror and Happy. He is currently preparing for Showman, a new UK tour.

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Entertaining and fascinating. Insights into how the brain works and how to improve it, such as how avoid being manipulated and becoming aware of your own prejudices.

Fascinating Listening

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An enjoyable series which was quite interesting, although I feel a little oversimplified at times, with a dash of humour thrown in.

A good listen

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I love his happy attitude and positive manner of speaking. It is a entertaining book.

lovely

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Derren brown makes this do interesting, he's such a great presenter, and of course he gets inside your brain and takes over the controls all the way through this great series

Great series

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Loved it. Derren is so engaging and full of personality. He helps put life into perspective

Awesome

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I never got him till he got scientific. what more can I say? listen more than once.

simply awesome

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A clear and well presented insight into our minds workings and frailties.
Disturbing and insightful all at the same time! 3-2-1 back in the room 😁

I am certain he made me say this!

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Derren Brown at his best, short, sharp and awesome. An awakening into how our brains work

An awakening

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This is well worth a listen. I learned so much. I highly recommend this book.

So Very Interesting.

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In bed I'll so looking to distract myself with something absorbing. Repetitive background music though

Really Interesting

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